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> Look to smaller more nimble Linux distributions that start shipping memory safe code Are any distributions moving in this direction yet? Seems to me like C/C

> Look to smaller more nimble Linux distributions that start shipping memory safe code Are any distributions moving in this direction yet? Seems to me like C/C++ applications are so foundational to Linux that this would be a huge undertaking. Are there even any memory safe window managers? Hell, even then you're reliant on X or Wayland. PulseAudio/Alsa are also hard to replace. edit: Quick google search only gives me https://github.com/mesalock-linux/mesalock-distro https://github.com/mesalock-linux/mesalock-distro which is trying to replace common tools with Rust/Go counterparts. I'm not sure how active it is. The main repo only has one main contributor.

masklinn 7y ago
> Are there even any memory safe window managers? I assume "non-toy" is included in there, but there's xmonad at least.
- IceDane 7y ago
  5+ years of using xmonad and never had a crash that I can remember.
  - owl57 7y ago
    Do other window managers crash?
    - Filligree 7y ago
      Yes, often. I can't count the number of times KWin has crashed on me. You might not notice, because it automatically restarts -- usually.
pjmlp 7y ago
Sawfish, which used to be GNOME's one for a couple of years. https://sawfish.tuxfamily.org/ https://sawfish.tuxfamily.org/ As for userspace in Go, check https://github.com/gokrazy https://github.com/gokrazy. Google has a couple of talks with it.